Masculine Gender Role Conflict and Negative Feelings About Being Gay

Professional Psychology: Research and Practice

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 104-111

  Sánchez, Francisco J ^a   Westefeld, John S ^b   Liu, William Ming ^b   Vilain, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

antifemininity; internalized heterosexism; internalized homophobia; self esteem; straight acting

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950937077     PISSN: 07357028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015805     Document Type: Article

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